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...Belding H. Scribner of the Seattle Artificial Kidney Unit, which houses a monster machine for treating 15 patients at once under hospital conditions (TIME, April 24), is also treating two patients at home by essentially the same technique as that used in Boston, though the equipment differs in detail. One of his patients is a high school girl who leaves classes early twice a week so that her mother can dialyze her, while she does her homework...
...fact due in part to the Atlantic's incapacity to pay rates that would attract established authors. Fifty Grand, the first Hemingway story to be published by a major U.S. magazine, appeared in the Atlantic in 1927-after Cosmopolitan, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and Scribner's had turned it down. Unwilling to rely solely on the editorial vision of literary agents, the Atlantic carefully read every unsolicited manuscript, a habit that persists to this day. "We publish more unsolicited material than any other national periodical," says Weeks...
CORRIDORS OF POWER by C. P. Snow. 403 pages. Scribner...
FRANCE REBORN by Robert Aron. 490 pages. Scribner...
Parrish's gnomes and damsels, straight out of King Arthur and tempered by romantic Pre-Raphaelite gentility, adorned the covers of Collier's, Century and Scribner's. His best-known commission (around $50,000) was a 28-ft.-long mural of Old King Cole for the merry old souls in the bar of John Jacob Astor's Hotel Knickerbocker, which can still be seen in Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis. Medieval nobility was a deathless theme for Parrish; even the caption for his 1921 Jell-O ad ran: "The King and Queen might eat hereof...